16th Infantry Brigade (United Kingdom)

The British 16th Infantry Brigade was a British Army formation based in Palestine at the beginning of the Second World War as part of the British 8th Infantry Division. It was later part of the British 6th Infantry Division which was redesignated as the British 70th Infantry Division on 10th October 1941. This brigade was involved in the breakout from Tobruk and after being transferred, along with the rest of the 70th Division, to India and Burma, it was transformed into a Chindit formation. It fought in the Second Chindit Campaign of 1944.

Officer Commanding

*Brigadier C.E.N.Lomax
*Brigadier Ouvry Roberts
*Brigadier B.E.Fergusson

Formation

*1st Battalion, The Welch Regiment

*1st Battalion, Sherwood Foresters

*1st Battalion, South Staffordshire Regiment

*2nd Battalion, The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey)

*2nd Battalion, The Royal Leicestershire Regiment

*2nd Battalion, King's Own Royal Regiment

ee also

*Chindits
*Order of Battle of the Chindits#Second Chindit Expedition 1944. Codenamed Operation Thursday
*Battle of Tobruk
*British 70th Infantry Division
*British 6th Infantry Division

External links

*http://orbat.com/site/ww2/drleo/017_britain/39_org/div_inf.html#div-02
*http://www.rrw.org.uk/regiment/41ww2.htm